Chapter 130 - 88: The Truth of Immortal Arrival (Part 2)
Chapter 130: Chapter 88: The Truth of Immortal Arrival (Part 2)
She was recounting something, and also probing for something.
Su Chen frowned, listening intently. What she said had piqued his interest.
However...
Even with his foundation as a Grand First Grade and his status as the revered Wind Snow Sword Immortal, Su Chen couldn’t hear a single word. He couldn’t even read her lips.
It was as if, in the unseen world, a Heavenly Secret had erased the words spoken by the Princess of Qii, making them completely non-existent in the Human World.
A Heavenly Secret.
It was similar to the Heavenly Secret that separates immortals and mortals.
But this was a different kind of Heavenly Secret.
This single sentence held a great secret, one that obscured the mortal world. Even though he was comparable to an Innate and had slain a Qi Cultivation Immortal, he was still part of that mortal world.
’Just as I thought...’
’How can this be?’
’An Immortal this terrifying, one who would have been considered a dazzling genius even in the Great Yu Period, an existence no one could ignore... to think he’s actually...’
Princess Le of Qii seemed to have confirmed something. Her body trembled violently, and an unprecedented shock filled her eyes.
She hadn’t been this shocked—this terrified—even when she personally witnessed that sword strike comparable to an Innate’s.
"You can’t hear a shred of the Human World’s secrets. You’re not a Qi Cultivation Immortal. You don’t even have a Spiritual Root. You practice Mortal Cultivation... and you’re not even a Grandmaster."
"But how can you be a mere First Grade...?"
Princess Le of Qii turned and left without a shred of hesitation.
"Hm?"
A dangerous glint appeared in Su Chen’s eyes. He reached for his sword, but before he could even draw it, the Dust-Washing Sword let out a clear ring.
It completely shattered.
When he looked again...
there was no sign of the Princess of Qii.
’She got away.’
Su Chen was slightly disappointed.
However...
Something felt strange.
The Wordless Book given to him by the Great Yu Library, despite its vast content, held no record of any of this.
This was when Su Chen realized how strange it was.
The lack of historical records from the Heavenly Fall Era was one thing.
But why...
wasn’t there even a complete map of the Human World?
In this Human World, even the three-hundred-year-reigning Demon Emperor of Great Liang only knew that the world was comprised of Zhou and Liang.
At one end of the Human Race’s territory was a chain of endless mountains, and at the other, a boundless sea.
The mountains were called the Demon Monster Mountain Range.
The sea was called the Endless Sea Region.
’What is this secret of the Human World she mentioned—one that can trigger a Heavenly Secret to erase it?’
In the distant Imperial City, a great battle erupted. The Ancient Grandmasters rushed into the Imperial Palace to burn, kill, and plunder, searching for the Ten Extremes Immortal Technique in Emperor Jie’s possession—the inheritance of Armors Like Mountains.
The Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques.
They were the peak of perfection in this Human World!
Never mind Sub-Innates.
Even an Innate being would slaughter relentlessly for such an inheritance.
They just didn’t know that even if they obtained the Ten Extremes Immortal Technique, the inheritance of Armors Like Mountains, it would be completely useless to them.
「At this moment.」
Within Su Chen’s body, Qi and blood merged, once again birthing a power akin to that of a Qi Cultivation Immortal.
A Magic Crystal condensed into existence.
Su Chen took out an ordinary wood carving.
In an instant.
The carving flew from his hand, swelling in the wind until it transformed into a wooden giant, one vaguely capable of challenging a First Grade.
And this was just an ordinary wood carving.
With a more powerful vessel...
the Immortal Skill’s effect would be even stronger.
With a Peak Corpse Refining, it would be easy to unleash the combat power of a Grandmaster under the effects of Armors Like Mountains.
’I’ve mastered Armors Like Mountains.’
「Atop the mountain peak.」
Su Chen stood tall, gazing at the Imperial City in the distance.
The Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques were unique.
In any given era, only one person can master it, reach the pinnacle, and truly possess a Ten Extremes Immortal Technique.
Su Chen had succeeded, and he had reached the very top.
This meant that...
no matter what the other Ancient Grandmasters did, they could no longer cultivate Armors Like Mountains.
This was also why Yu Le, despite being far from the Imperial City, had panicked and rushed back at top speed upon sensing someone had mastered the Third Layer of the Seeking Immortality Skill.
He, the prodigious Magic Immortal of Great Yu who had reached the pinnacle and possessed the Seeking Immortality Skill, had been inexplicably surpassed and kicked off the mountaintop by a newcomer.
How could he not be anxious?
This was a Ten Extremes Immortal Technique!
’Speaking of which, Yu Le should be gone by now,’ Su Chen mused.
He strolled leisurely.
As he walked along the main streets of the Imperial City, he noticed the contact signals for the Black Abyss in the corners, growing more numerous and more urgent.
The Black Abyss had been searching for him, the Black Lotus Saint, almost frantically as of late, but Su Chen had ignored them completely.
Clearly,
seeing the Ancient Grandmasters reviving one after another, the sealed Black Abyss Ancestor was starting to get anxious.
"A quarter-pound of braised pork head."
「In the outer district of the Imperial City.」
The braised meat shop’s business was running as usual, seemingly unaffected, as if it weren’t the Emperor who had been assassinated that one night.
"Here you are, Doctor Xuu."
The owner of the braised meat shop was a slightly stout, bald man. He chuckled as he wrapped the meat in a lotus leaf and handed it to Su Chen.
Su Chen had become a regular of his over the years.
In the back room, his wife was stewing pork offal. Her face was covered in sweat, but she wore a wide smile.
Their young child was there too, using a piece of charcoal to doodle and write on the ground, practicing characters and forming sentences.
This was a relatively happy family of three.
Walking all the way here, it was clear that unlike the Great Zhou Inner City, where the powerful and noble gathered under a bleak cloud of sorrow as if the sky had fallen, the common people of this outer district didn’t seem to treat the Emperor’s death as a big deal.
Su Chen couldn’t resist asking.
"The Emperor is dead. The realm will be thrown into chaos. I see the city’s nobility are all fraught with worry, so why are you..."
"I’m one of the Liang People, born in a Tianwu Year. In my thirty short years, I’ve seen too many emperors fall. We’ve always managed to get by."
"Besides,"
"this Emperor was slain by the Wind Snow Sword Immortal. There must have been a good reason for it! As long as Great Liang has the Wind Snow Sword Immortal to protect hardworking folk like us, what do we little people have to worry about..."